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...Letterman once noted, "I think that's a record for a stand-up comedian in peacetime." Saturday Night Live's audience jumped by a million viewers when he was on. His phrases "Well, excuuuuse me!" and "wild and crazy guys" became schoolyard mantras. Steve Martin was the comic as rock star. And then he wasn't. He stopped cold in 1981 to concentrate on movies and never went back to stand-up comedy...
...everywhere, but don’t seem to make a lasting impression lately. Maybe after the beeper fad passes, radio stations will take this lack of attentiveness to heart.—Staff writer Kimberly E. Gittleson and contributing writer Evan L. Hanlon are the president and rock director of WHRB, Harvard’s student-run radio station. Gittleson can be reached at gittles@fas.harvard.edu...
...mail: “That [album] was high school for me.” Fine. But maybe I want “Emergency & I” to be high school for me, too! Musically, the group carries off such an extravagant variety of styles—dance, rock, punk—that one wonders if they aren’t a rotating radio dial filtered through a rock group. More importantly, Travis Morrison’s lyrics are smart but not wise. He describes social, romantic, and suburban anxiety with rare precision, but he never knows how to feel better...
...love “The Black and White Album.” I believed that The Hives—even after touring with Maroon 5, collaborating with Timbaland, and recording with Pharrell Williams—would stay true to the formula that produced two of the most exciting rock albums of the last decade. I thought that, even as The Strokes lost their touch and The White Stripes altered their sound, The Hives would stand tall as the unwavering foundation for my love of the garage rock revival. “The Black and White Album” proves...
...years I have lived in New York City, I doubt that I have seen as many front-page stories about my country in the New York Times as you'd get about Israel in a month. Why would you want to know about us? We don't rock your boat or export much you're interested in, except for our admirable wines, a steady supply of sports figures and a few actors like Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman...